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On Jun 5, 2017, SORT delivered a release with the following features and enhancements to have in-time support for InfoScale 7.3 and HyperScale for Containers 1.0

Veritas InfoScale Solutions:

SORT Data Collectors (https://sort.veritas.com/data_collectors) enables the support for InfoScale products on both Linux and Windows platform for installation and upgrade report, risk assessment report, licensing report and Vxexplorer.

Kernel Lookups (https://sort.veritas.com/kernel) can be accessed from navigation and show the support date and patches if there are for specific kernel. Enhanced the kernel search by entering kernel versions

Included all SFHA/InfoScale products under what-if analysis in SORT Licensing reports

InfoScale 7,2 release (refer to previous announcement)

Access 7.2:

Refer to the previous announcement

HPEHVC 2.0:

Refer to the previous announcement

Data Insight 5.2:

Refer to the previous announcement

NetBackup Solutions:

Kept current with updates to all the NetBackup Compatibility List changes

oAddition of a link to the new "What's new in NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance releases" web page in the I&U Checklist reports and Quick Links on the Backup and Recovery (NetBackup) SORT landing page.

oSupport for AIX 7.2 as a NetBackup master and media server.

oSupport for the 5240 NetBackup Appliance starting with upgrades to 3.0*

·NetBackup Website:

oNetBackup Database and Application Agent compatibility checker app

*** Support will be made available nearer to the GA date of the NetBackup 8.0 and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 releases

[ 2016-08-02 ] SORT support for Resiliency Platform 2.0

On Aug 1, 2016, SORT delivered a release specifically focused on supporting the GA release of Veritas Resiliency Platform 2.0. With this release we added the following features and enhancements:

Able to export the commands being played in each topic for later reference

Improved performance and accessibility

Integrated Virtual Technical Sales Specialist Team (vTSS) in SORT Mobile (https://sort.veritas.com/mobile_apps), which allows you to initiate a real-time chat session in the office hour.

Veritas InfoScale Solutions:

SORT Data Collectors (https://sort.veritas.com/data_collectors) enables the support for InfoScale products on both Linux and Windows platform for installation and upgrade report, risk assessment report, licensing report and Vxexplorer.

Enhanced the Upgrade Information section of the Appliance I&U Checklist reports to include a reference to the new Upgrade Readiness Analyzer tool.

Added support for new platforms

AIX 7.2 client starting at 7.7.2

Ubuntu 16.04 client starting at 7.7.2

Inclusion of the new OST Cloud Supported Technology Methods table from the updated HCL

Added sample risk analysis checklist reports for NetBackup

Added support for the 2.7.3 NetBackup Appliance I&U Checklist reporting

Added an important note at the top of the NetBackup, OpsCenter and Appliances I&U Checklist and NetBackup and OpsCenter Custom reports for the security vulnerability VTS16-001

Finished rebranding to Veritas and updated all URLs posted with the Veritas address space

Added a new NetBackup system requirement in the I&U Checklist and data collector check for Windows and UNIX/Linux for the BMR DB rebuild time issue as documented in https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH211811

SORT delivered a release with the following features and enhancements to have in-time support for InfoScale 7.1.

Veritas InfoScale Solutions:

SORT Data Collectors (https://sort.veritas.com/data_collectors) enables the support for InfoScale products on both Linux and Windows platform for installation and upgrade report, risk assessment report, licensing report and Vxexplorer.

ShellAddin (https://sort.veritas.som/shelladdin) offers the ability to view and learn CLI commands for configuration use cases for Veritas Account Manager (VAM) registered users. It provides the direct experience on how the commands run.

Install/Upgrade Assessment Checklist (https://sort.veritas.com/checklist/install) provides the platform release support for InfoScale Availability 7.0.1 on Solaris x64. For other platforms and InfoScale products, choose 7.0 and it will show 7.0.1 in the Patch section.

Product features (https://sort.veritas.com/product_features ) and videos with introduction of the corresponding features will be integrated into this page gradually, which gives an overview of the feature.

•Enable filtering of new appliance data from HCL based on appliance series in Installation & Upgrade Checklist report

•Add support for Appliance 2.7.1 release (Turned off awaiting GA)

•Enhance the Risk Assessment checklist with the NetBackup and OpsCenter RA in Risk Assessment Report

•Enhance the I&U custom reports with consistent titles and ordered the checks the same for UNIX and Windows custom reports

•Add support for SUSE 12 z/Architecture in I&U Checklist reports

•Add sub-menus to the Windows Data Collector in the Windows Data Collector

•Add support for Windows 10 x86-64 in the I&U Checkist and Windows Data Collector/Custom report

[ 2015-07-07 ] New SORT release for InfoScale, VRP, NetBackup

On July 6, 2015, the first products in the Veritas InfoScale Family have been released. The InfoScale consolidated 18 products of Storage Foundation into 4, vastly simplifying the positioning while increasing customer value within the products. More details, please refer to InfoScale Introduction (https://sort.veritas.com/infoscale/intro).

Enhanced the report to include new data for the Virtual Systems Compatibility section

Enhanced the report to include a new section titled ‘NetBackup Self Service Support’

Added a new system requirement for Windows reports stating that NetBackup and Backup Exec are not compatible, i.e., can’t run on the same host

[ 2015-04-27 ] New SORT release!

On April 27, 2015, SORT delivered another release and added the following features and enhancements:

Storage Foundation and Availability Solutions:

Storage Foundation and High Availability 6.2.1 release included new platform support for SLES 12, Oracle Linux UEKv3 for Availability product and maintenance release for Unix and Linux platform on April 24, 2015. SORT supports 6.2.1 release within the following areas:

• Added support for the NetBackup 7.6.1.2 and NetBackup Appliance 2.6.1.2 releases to the Installation and Upgrade Checklist and Custom Reports (note: support currently turned off awaiting product release).

Added support for the NetBackup 7.6.1 and NetBackup Appliance 2.6.1 releases to the Installation and Upgrade Checklist and Custom Reports (note: support enabled at GA, 2015-01-14).

Enhanced the UNIX/Linux Data Collector, Custom and Installation and Upgrade Checklist reporting for an adequate value for the VxFS buffer cache high water mark, vxfs_bc_bufhwm, for the HP-UX IA-64 platform.

Enhance the OST Storage Server section of the Installation & Upgrade Checklist report with data for Oracle Linux 5 & 6 and CentOS 5 & 6 per the footnotes in the HCL.

Included the NetBackup Software Alerts web link in the LBN Hot Fix and Documentation sections of the I&U Checklist report.

Enhanced the I&U Checklist to gather the Cluster compatibility data from a new section in the SCL. The Cluster CL document no longer exists. The data in it has now been added as a new section to the SCL.

Installation and Upgrade Custom Report

Enhanced UNIX/Linux Data Collector and Web reporting for an adequate value for the VxFS buffer cache high water mark, vxfs_bc_bufhwm, for the HP-UX IA-64 platform.

Enhance the Installation and Upgrade Checklist reporting with support for the SUSE 12 x86-64 and z/Architecture platforms.

Added support for the NetBackup 7.6.1 and NetBackup Appliance 2.6.1 releases (note: support enabled at GA, 2015-01-14).

Enhanced the Installation and Upgrade Checklist reporting system requirements section with a details for an adequate value for the VxFS buffer cache high water mark, vxfs_bc_bufhwm, for the HP-UX IA-64 platform.

Enhance the OST Storage Server section of the Installation & Upgrade Checklist report with data for Oracle Linux 5 & 6 and CentOS 5 & 6 per the footnotes in the HCL.

Included the NetBackup Software Alerts web link in the LBN Hot Fix and Documentation sections of the I&U Checklist report.

Enhanced the I&U Checklist to gather the Cluster compatibility data from a new section in the SCL. The Cluster CL document no longer exists. The data in it has now been added as a new section to the SCL.

Enhanced the Media Server System Requirements section in the HP-UX IA-64 reports to reference the VxFS tuning requirement, vxfs_bc_bufhwm

Enhanced the UNIX Data Collector/Custom Report to check for an adequate value for the VxFS buffer cache high water mark, vxfs_bc_bufhwm, for the HP-UX IA-64 platform.

Included the NetBackup Software Alerts web link in the LBN Hot Fix and Documentation sections of the I&U Checklist

Enhanced the I&U Checklist to gather the Cluster compatibility data from a new section in the SCL. The Cluster CL document will no longer exist. The data in it has now been added as a new section to the SCL.

See separate NetBackup SORT news announcement for additional details

[ 2014-12-02 ] SORT support for Storage Foundation and High Availability 6.2

On December 2nd ,2014, SORT delivered another release and added the following features:

Support for Storage Foundation and High Availability 6.2 release within the following areas of SORT:

SmartAssist - SmartIO Caching Profiler Tool is available on SORT Data Collectors page (https://sort.veritas.com/data_collectors). This tool is to analyze the I/Os on the specified devices in the system for specified time, and calculate the optimal cache size for the workload.

Case creation support for Vxexplorer. This provides the way for the entitled users to create or update cases to Symantec Tech Support after running Vxexplorer logs.

SFHA release type change since 6.0.1 in Patches page (https://sort.veritas.com/patch/finder ). Beginning with Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) 6.0.1, the release type of Hot Fix is replaced by Patch. Therefore, 6.0.X.#00 and 6.1.0.#00 releases become Patches from Hot Fixes. There is no content change in any resource that you download from SORT.

On Sept 20, 2014, another release of SORT Mobile was successfully deployed to the App Store!

The highlights of the new release include:- The ability to support iOS 8, which was published recently by Apple- Native support for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ screen sizes- Improvement in performance and stability to offer better user experience

[ 2014-08-13 ] SORT is now available on Android devices!

SORT functionality is now available as a mobile application on Google play!

NetBackup Solutions:

Enhanced Data Collectors to filter out checks that are not relevant to the platform, role of the host, or version of NBU so there isan easier consumable custom report https://sort.veritas.com/data_collectors

Inclusion of the latest NetBackup, NetBackup Appliance and OpsCenter hot fix information in the Installation and Upgrade Checklist

Enhanced Data Collectors (DCs) to filter out checks that are not relevant to the platform, role (master server, media server, client) of the host or version of NBU so there is an easier consumable custom report https://sort.veritas.com/data_collectors

The latest release of Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Symantec ApplicationHA is a key step in supporting our customers that run the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization stack. This release enables organizations to adopt Flash/SSD for mission-critical workloads for increased and reliable performance without compromising on availability. This release also further enhances the high availability and disaster recovery capabilities which our customers already use.

Virtual Business Service support for Microsoft Failover Cluster - Comprehensive and automated disaster recovery for critical multi-tier applications that have components running on Microsoft Failover Cluster. Benefits include quick and smooth application recovery with automated start/stop and recovery algorithm between the multi-tier application components.

On 64-bit Windows systems, if OpsCenter language packs or maintenance (triple-dot) releases are installed on top of an installation of version 7.5, an upgrade to OpsCenter 7.6 may fail. For example, if you upgrade OpsCenter 7.5 to 7.5.0.6, an upgrade to OpsCenter 7.6 may fail. See TECH211070 for details.

[ 2013-09-18 ] New SORT release!

On September 16, 2013, Symantec completed another release of SORT. With this release we added the following features and enhancements:

A new section available only in the SORT I&U Checklist report titled, 'NetBackup Planned Future OS/Platform Feature/Functionality Technology Improvement and Discontinuation Notification'. This section will alert our customers to future proliferation and platform end of life information.

As of December 17, 2012, SORT includes the following features and enhancements for NetBackup:

General

New capability to create email notifications when hot fixes/EEBs are fixed in a GA release. This can be done via use of the SORT Notification widget or from within the Hot Fix / EEB Release Auditor widget.

Improved navigation capability for the NetBackup family of products in the Symantec Product and Platform Support Matrix

Support for NetBackup and OpsCenter 7.5.0.4 maintenance release in the installation and upgrade checklist and custom reports (originally made available the same day it was released via an asynchronous update)

Support for the NetBackup 52xx 2.5.1 Appliance (DeLorean) release in the installation and upgrade checklist (originally made available the same day it was released via an asynchronous update)

oHCL Central can be accessed via the Quick Links section on the main SORT website

HCL Central is an on-line version of our HCL previously only released as a PDF document. It can be used to quickly view supported hardware and associated features based on the hardware component, the Storage Foundation release, and/or the Operating System platform.

[ 2012-09-05 ] New SORT features and enhancements

On September 5, 2012, Symantec added the following features and improvements to the SORT website:

Improved the upgrade instructions with more specific references to which upgrade documents to review and in what order for 7.5 reports

Made certain sections applicable to only the versions of NetBackup in which appropriate, e.g., NetBackup Search only in 7.5 (and beyond) reports

Dynamically set the title of the ‘Installation/Upgrade Information’ section depending on the user selecting an ‘upgrading from’ value - ‘Installation Information’ when no value provided and ‘Upgrade Information’ when a value provided

Installation and Upgrade Custom Report

Enhanced upgrade instructions recommending doing a catalog backup prior to the upgrade and incorporating references to the upgrade portal and upgrade guide (for 7.5 reports) as well as ‘upgrade order’ of NetBackup products

[ 2012-05-03 ] New SORT features and enhancements

As of May 3, 2012, SORT includes the following features and enhancements:

Storage Foundation High Availability Solutions:

Ability to automatically create product notifications in a general checklist and in a custom report

Direct links from the SORT home page to MySORT that are based on System Administrator use cases

The NetBackup 7.5 release is now included in the Installation and Upgrade Checklist within SORT. Browse to the checklist generation page at http://sort.veritas.com/checklist/install to see the new version.

[ 2012-02-06 ] SORT supports new NetBackup Appliance Software Release

A new NetBackup 5200/5220 Appliance release is available and is now included in the Installation and Upgrade Checklist within SORT. Browse to the checklist generation page at http://sort.veritas.com/checklist/install to see the new 2.0.2 version.

[ 2011-12-19 ] New SORT Features for NetBackup

As of December 19, 2011, SORT includes the following new features and enhancements:

SORT now supports Storage Foundation for Windows 6.0. The General Checklist on the mysort page (http://mysort.veritas.com) can be run to understand how to prepare for a SFW or SFWHA installation or upgrade. Additionally, all available 6.0 documenation is on the documents page (http://sort.veritas.com/documents).

[ 2011-10-23 ] SORT turns 4!

On October 23, 2007, a customer uploaded the first install report to SORT.

Time flies, and today, we'd like to thank our user community - now numbering thousands of customers and partners.Together, we've run tens of thousands of reports, and based on your feedback we'vecontinued to add new services to SORT, most recently price tier lookup and Japanese and Chinese documents.

Here's to the next four years!

[ 2011-10-04 ] Quarterly Agent Pack Released

The latest quarterly Agent Pack for Application HA, VCS, and VCS One has been released.

A new Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.1 is now available! In addition to many bug fixes, NetBackup 7.1.0.2 contains several changes that can improve restore performance and rehydration performance.

SORT has been updated to support the NetBackup 7.1.0.2 release in the Installation and Upgrade Custom Reports, Installation and Upgrade Checklist and in the hot fix and eeb release auditor.

[ 2011-09-07 ] NEW RELEASE Veritas Operations Manager Advanced

Veritas Operations Manager Advanced, a premium version of Veritas Operations Manager is now available.

A new pricing and licensing widget lets you lookup the new “Symantec Performance Value Unit” price meter (planned for SF/HA 6.0). The same tool lets you lookup the existing meter, the server tier, for a given make and model. You may need to add the widget if you do not see it.

Storage Foundation/Dynamic Multi-Pathing for Windows’ DDIs and DDLs (array support) are now available.

Custom Reports uploaded to the SORT website now show any new additional patches released since the data collector was last updated

Creating new email notices for patches and other downloads has been simplified

The Windows Data Collector adds new Risk Assessment checks

[ 2011-08-15 ] New SORT Features for NetBackup

As of August 15, 2011, SORT includes the following new features and enhancements:

The latest quarterly Agent Pack for Application HA, VCS, and VCS One has been released.

https://sort.veritas.com/agents

[ 2011-06-16 ] VOM add-ons available on SORT

We now have Vertias Operations Manager (VOM) add-on functionality available on SORT. Click the VOM option under the Downloads tab to view and download documentation and add-on features. Add-on features for Unix and Windows include:

Business Entity Operaions

Storage Insight

Thin Reclamation

Storage Provisioning and Volume Migration

Package Anomaly

and more...

[ 2011-05-31 ] New SORT features

As of May 31, 2011, SORT includes the following new or updated features:

Support Articles & Alerts (Technotes and Techalerts) are included with Documentation

Documented process in help file to use wget for Data Collector download

[ 2010-10-18 ] Symantec launches Symantec Operations Readiness Tools

Based on user feedback, Symantec has renamed Veritas Operations Services to Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT). In addition to introducing the new name SORT, Symantec has redesigned the Web site and added these new features:

A new landing page that provides training about features on the site

New data collector functionality for NetBackup installations and upgrades

Integration of key NetBackup data in the NetBackup checklists

Improved data collector flow, including options to run individual reports

VERITAS

SORT Support

Get notifications about ASLs/APMs, HCLs, patches, and high availability agents

As a registered user, you can create notifications to receive updates about NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans, NetBackup hot fixes/EEBs in released versions, Array Support Libraries (ASLs)/Array Policy Modules (APMs), hardware compatibility lists (HCLs), patches and high availability agents. In addition, you can create system-specific notifications customized to your environment.

Compare configurations

The Compare Configurations feature lets you compare different system scans by the data collector. When you sign in, you can choose a target system, compare reports run at different times, and easily see how the system's configuration has changed.